Cheryl draws a crowd as she returns to her native Newcastle for a meeting with Prince Charles

Cheryl drew a crowd on Tuesday as she made an appearance in her native Newcastle ahead of a meeting with Charles, Prince of Wales. 

The former Girls Aloud star, 38, offered a smile to onlookers as she made her way into Newcastle Centre, the industrial city’s Prince Trust headquarters. 

Cheryl joined forces with the Royal youth charity in 2017 to develop the state-of-the-art centre in the heart of her hometown, with the aim of assisting disadvantaged children across England’s north-east.  

Here she comes: Cheryl drew a crowd on Tuesday as she made an appearance in her native Newcastle ahead of a meeting with Charles, Prince of Wales

Wearing an oversized burgandy and light pink checked jacket with co-ordinated dress and knee-high boots, the singer smiled at photographers as she arrived at the charity’s offices. 

Charles, 72, is visiting the city to meet representatives the from North Eastern Railway (LNER) before heading to the headquarters of Newcastle’s Changing Lives charity.

The charity marked its 50th anniversary in 2020 after it was founded in 1970 in response to a rising number of people sleeping rough in the city.

In a message to staff, Prince Charles said that the charity might not have expected to be facing the current situation we do when they began, saying: ‘The particular challenges we are currently facing as a society could never have been foreseen when Changing Lives began its journey in 1970.’